Been there done that. One November day while in the house watching football on TV I heard what I thought was a dynamite charge go off followed by an immediate loss of power. It turns out that it was due to a squirrel arcing across the positive and negative poles on a transformer on my property. It fried the transformer and of course the squirrel never knew what hit him. They can't stand 13,500 volts.
I was a lineman for Entergy for 10 years. Picked up a many of them off the ground. It's only way to cook one that's faster than a microwave. We called flashed fried.